But with the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 rumors spread of radioactive contamination of many Japanese products.
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Tokoyo Electric has suffered billions in losses and their reactor failures released massive amounts of radioactive contamination into the environment.
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They urge the Japanese government to carry out a more thorough assessment of radioactive contamination across Japan before considering future decontamination plans.
In environmental circles, Jaduguda is known as India's Chernobyl, after the Soviet nuclear reactor that malfunctioned in 1986 and spewed radioactive contamination across great swathes of Europe.
This would have further cataclysmic consequences, overwhelming hospitals across Asia, and requiring a vast amount of foreign assistance to deal with radioactive contamination and famine and disease.
An airplane crash does not have the possibility of the continued risk of killing people by radioactive contamination or genetic mutation decades or even permanently into the future.
Many of us have certain mental images that spring to mind when thinking of the effects of radioactive contamination: mutated animals, children with deformities and birth defects, for example.
Does he care whether his readers receive the information in the post about radioactive contamination of drinking water and milk or is he more interested in deceiving them into believing a conspiracy theory?
The Japanese government now says that levels of radioactive contamination beyond the legal health limits have been found in tap water in a town nearly 30-miles (46-kilometers) northwest of the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
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High levels of cesium 134 and 137 were confirmed at the point of the leak roughly 300 yards from the ocean, but no detectable amounts of radioactive contamination have been found in the sea water.
Since the March 11 earthquake that ravaged northern Japan, workers at Fukushima Daiichi have been struggling to cool down three overheated reactors and keep pools of spent but still potent nuclear fuel from spreading further radioactive contamination across northern Japan.
Key challenges facing society over the next decades include management of our environmental legacy, particularly toxic metal contamination and safe disposal of the significant global radioactive legacy.
In early May, a study by Ireland's nuclear watchdog - the Irish Radiological Protection Institute -claimed that radioactive discharge from Sellafield continued to be the dominant source of contamination in the Irish Sea.
One concern is possible contamination of aquifers by methane, fracking fluids or the radioactive gunk they dislodge.
Metal-processing facilities already face contamination problems when they inadvertently accept medical devices and other radioactive products, Mr. Danjczek said.
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The contamination discovered last month here in eastern Washington state under a disused research building is so radioactive it could kill on contact, said Don McBride, a radiation expert with the federal contractor cleaning up the building.
Relatively low contamination levels in western Japan could be explained by mountain ranges sheltering those regions from the dispersal of radioactive material, the authors said.
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